(949 quotes found)
“People from different traditions, don't realize what they will encounter.”
James Buchanan
“Tradition! We scarcely know the word anymore. We are afraid to be either proud of our ancestors or ashamed of them. We scorn nobility in name and in fact. We cling to a bourgeois mediocrity which would make it appear we are all Americans, made in the image and likeness of George Washington.”
Dorothy Day
“For athletes traditionally it's such a fantastic stepping stone to greater things down the track and in the future. Don't undermine the Commonwealth Games.”
Cathy Freeman
“Many of these biographies are based on rubbish that just isn't true, ... All the traditional stories came from Daniel Defoe, who of course wrote a lot of myth and legend.”
David Dobson
“If you think about dynasties or traditions —Oklahoma State is close to the top as far as wrestling goes.”
John Smith
“Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle.”
Bible
“This is yet another in a series of attacks on the religious traditions on which our nation was founded. For far too long, the liberals have used our courts as a way to create rules they cannot achieve popularly through an elected, representative legislature. If anything is unconstitutional, it is this vicious display of judicial activism.”
Kevin Martin
“The dissenting opinion has continued since 1792 as a great American tradition. It is as true to the character of our democracy as of speech itself.”
William Orville Douglas
“My personal political convictions are rooted in the populist political traditions of western Canada.”
Preston Manning
“I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.”
James A. Michener
